thomas friedman: yeah, it is going to get painful.nly question is if market or mother nature or political leaders will deliver the pain, but the pain is coming. terre: do you think we have time to change? tarja: i hope so. we kind of know that whether it is already too late, but if we postpone it tomorrow, at least it does not help the situation. so it is time to act now. ♪ tarja: i think so that our children and grandchildren will say that, mommy, granny, did you really think that you did not see this? it cannot be solved at your desk. it has to be also taking a risk to try, try to make an effort in practice. and learn by doing. be ready to say that we tried enough, but now perhaps it is a new way. so, i mean to take a risk to , make a new action. kwame anthony appiah: we have to think of ways of incentivizing people to do the things that would be good to do. we have to give tax advantages to green businesses so that the technologies develop, which will mean that our industries are making money on the world's carbon neutral technolog

friedman, thank you for coming in. the book is "thank you for being late." thomas: appreciate it.ty: that is what we need more of, optimists. alicia keys is one of the most famous musicians on the planet and one of the best selling artists of her generation. her music is infused with the soul and sounds of her native new york, where she grew up witnessing the best and worst of humanity. as part of our "100 women" series, we spoke to her about her upbringing and how it affected her music and her life. alicia: i didn't grow up with trees and fences and houses that were pretty with nice neighbors. i grew up amongst the harshest of the harsh. i saw women being exploited because i live on 42nd street, in the middle of the highest prostitution that existed in new york city. i lived there, walked there, walked past, forward left, , right. that was my neighborhood. and so i saw women who had to live that life because that is what they had to do, or because that is what they were forced to do or because they did not have any choice or other options or because they had children they had to

thomas friedman, thank you for not being late. great thoughts. >> to people who are feeling genuinely anxious about the future, i would tell you, i wish they could be a fly on the wall. in the room, like we were up in new jersey all weekend long, as one impressive american after another came in, and to see the way our president-elect is asking the tough questions. he's driving forward. he's assembling a team around him. >> welcome back to "morning joe." it's tuesday, november 22nd. 8:00 a.m. on the east coast. 5:00 a.m. out west. back with us on set, we have former democratic congressman harold ford jr. >> he's my favorite. i have three points about why he's my favorite. good looking, he's smart, and he's really good looking. >> talking points provided to you by the clinton campaign. >> national correspondent for bloomberg business week, josh green. and columnist and associate editor for "the washington post," david ignatius. breaking news, a source with direct knowledge of donald trump's thinking tells "morning joe" in his administration the pre

jon karl, martha raddatz, brian ross and "the new york times" columnist thomas friedman. >>> plus, after a crushing loss -- >> this is painful and it will be for a long time. now it's time for them to bind the wounds. >> with the country struggling to unite. what happens next. here now, chief anchor. george stephanopoulos. >>> shoulders the hopes and dreams. the fear and anxiety of millions more. >> it is time for us. for us to come together as one united. a kinder gentler donald trump. >> we owe her a major debt of gratitude. to our country. >> deference to the president whose legitimacy he questioned. >> mr. president, it was a great honor being with you and i look forward to being with you, many, many more times in the future. thank you. >> respect for the republican leaders he denounced. >> i think we're going to do some absolutely spectacular things for the american people. >> but away from the rituals of washington alongside the elation of trump supporters, there is deep anxiety, anger and fear. [ chanting no trump, no kkk, no racist usa" ] >> protests four nights running. >> you a

we will come back with "the new york times" >>> back now with thomas friedman, the pulitzer prize winning columnist with a new book "thank you for being late" and calls the great accession began ushering in a dizzying disorienting time of change, economic and environmental. he's here to explain it right now and i want to get to the and you wrote a series of columns during the campaign, very tough on donald trump. you called him a disgusting human being and calling the election a moral 9/11 only 9/11 was done to us from the outside. we did this to ourselves. that's pretty apocalyptic language. >> no question we saw language used in this campaign that debased and demeaned people, george, in ways we've never seen before. red lines were erased that i don't think will be easily the inevitable backlash to the kind of changes you describe in your book. >> my book basically argues we're in the middle of three nonlinear axle rations with the three largest forces called the market, digital globally says, mother nature, that's climate change bio di terse very and moore's law and those have touched t

joining us is thomas friedman who is author of the new book "thank you for being late." thanks. great to be here. >> tell us about the iphone. >> well, one of the things i literally stumbled across this in researching the book. i started noticing all the things that happened in 2007. the iphone came out in 2007. facebook came out in high schools and universities in 2007. hadup came out in 2007. get hub came out in 2007. android came out in 2007. airbnb started in 2007. the price of sequencing at human genome goes like that in 2007. >> all of this happened, then the whole global economy goes off a cliff and everybody was distracted for a few years but people were still buying iphones. now we come out the other event and think the world is really different. >> it's really different. by the way, joe, fracking started in 2007. and took off the same year. think about it. gps, big data nap made that possible also. so all these things happened basically in one space of 2007 to 2008. our physical technologies leapt ahead. it's like we're on a moving sidewalk that went from 5 mil

jon karl, martha raddatz, brian ross and "the new york times" columnist thomas friedman.

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thank you for being here, the book, thomas l friedman, just think about this as we close, just think about this. from bay root to injures lem in 1989, the lechus and the olive tree in '99, lo j teuds and attitude ins 2002. the world is flat in 2005. hot, flats and crowded in 2008. that used to be us with michael mannedelbalm in 2011 and now in 2016, thank you for being late. thank you for coming to this table. >> a pleasure. thanks so much, charlie,. >> rose: back in a moment, stay with us. >> we conclude this evening with the consideration of jared kushner's potential role in the trump administration. is he married to donald trump's eldred daughter ivanka trump. while he kept a low public profile he is believed to have played a pif oltal role in his father-in-law's bid for the presidency in contrast to the regular staff reshuffling during the campaign, he has emerged as a steadying and powerful influence and is believed to have the ear of both trump and his innercircle. joining me now emily jane fox from "vanity fair" and jonathan mahler from "the new york times." tell me about what